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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Albany Devils left wing Mattias Tedenby “appears to be OK” after undergoing “long surgery” for a cut to the face he sustained during an AHL game Friday night against Adirondack, his agent in Sweden, Peter Werner, said via email this morning.

“Long surgery, but we believe it’s mainly cosmetical,” Werner said. “Some nerves were cut but likely restored in the surgery.”

A plastic surgeon performed the procedure. Tedenby was taken to a hospital in Glens Falls, N.Y. after being cut on the right side of his face, beginning above the ear and running across his chin, by the skate of Adirondack defenseman Brandon Manning.

The incident occurred 7:47 into the third period after Tedenby was driving to the Adirondack net. Tedenby ran into Phantoms goaltender Scott Munroe after being cut and received a goaltender interference minor on the play.

According to the Albany Times Union, Adirondack coach Terry Murray said the Phantoms defenseman, who he didn’t identify, “lost his balance and as Tedenby went to the net, he (the defenseman) leaned over, lost his balance and his back leg kicked up and caught him. It's nerve-racking, those kinds of cuts. I've seen them before. It's not good."

***The Devils will hold an optional morning skate today at Nassau Coliseum in preparation for their game tonight against the Islanders. Johan Hedberg will start in net for the Devils

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TOM GULITTI has covered the New Jersey Devils for The Record since 2002. Prior to that, he covered the New York Rangers for four years. Gulitti joined The Record in 1998 after six years at The North Jersey Herald News. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric-Literature.